Drawer-pull



( Model.)

G. W. T ER.

Draws Patented Nov. 23, 1880.

llnrrnn Sterne PATIENT Whitman GEORGE W. TUCKER, OF W'ATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,696, dated November 23, 1880.

Application filed September 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. TUCKER, of Vaterbury, New Haven county, Connecticut, have invented certain Improvements in Drawer-Pulls, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of my invention is to avoid the expense and other objections incident to the ordinary modes of connecting drops or handles to the bolts in pulls for drawers, &c., and this I effect by dispensing with the ordinary spin dles traversing the drops and substituting therefor a thimble firmly connected to each drop, as fully described hereinafter.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating the construction of my improved pull; and Fig. 2, a side view looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 1.

A is the bolt by which the drop is connected to the drawer or other object, and B the drop or handle, which may be connected in any suitable manner to the bolt, the latter being shown with a forked head, a, and transverse pin, 1), passing through the end of the handle.

Ordinarily a bolt or spindle passing through the handle is connected to the pin 7) and provided at the lower end with a nut, the loss of which results in the detachment of the handle. Vhen the handle is driven upon the spindle 0 it is liable to be split or otherwise injured.

I provide the end of the handle with a cap, D, of metal, formed to fit the handle, and make the latter with an annular rib or shoulder, 0,

(Model) beneath which I bend or turn the edge of the thimble, so as to lock the latter firmly to the handle.

The pin 1) passes through a hole transversely through both thimble and handle, and secures the latter flexibly to the bolt A.

The cap D is of such strength that the pin I) cannot tear the same, while the lips 71 will resist any power tending to remove the cap from the handle. The cap has the further effect of preventing the splitting of the handle by moisture or otherwise.

While the above construction obviates the objections to ordinary modes of attachment, it is stronger and cheaper.

I am aware that it is not new to confine metal tips to cords by indenting the tip, and do not claim, broadly, this mode of attachment; but

I claim- Thethandle of a drawer-pull provided with a thimble covering the inner end, and having a lip engaging with a shoulder of the handle, and constructed for attachment to the spindle by a transverse pin extending through the thimble, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereot'I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v G. \V. TUCKER.

Witnesses:

W. H. OOOKE, D. N. PLUME. 

